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APPLICATION FILED JULY 10, '|9l6. 1,2165%,

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

rERnY c. JAMES, or SGIOTA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE o. BAYNE, or BUSHNELL,

. ILLINoIs. 1

Inner appnca'eoan kiirny 10; 1916. serial No. ioaseo.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PERRY C. JAMES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sciota, in the county of McDonough and State of Illinois have invented a new and useful Hinge, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of hinges generally employed on gates and adapted to permit the gate-member to be freely hung upon or removed from the post-member or pintle, but the parts of such construction and relationship that animals cannot hook, root or otherwise raise the gate and thereby the gate-member off the pintle.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a very simple and economic hinge of the character described, and the invention resides in structural features and in combinations of elements hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate my invention;

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improvements, shown as attached to fragmental portions of a gate and a supporting post;

Fig. 2, a bottom plan, partly in section, the plane thereof taken in the line 2-2 in Fig. 1, the View showing by full lines the gate in closed position and by dotted lines the gate in open position; and

Fig. 3, a perspective of the pintle-receiving member. 7

Coming now to a detailed description of the drawings, and referring to each part by a reference numeral, uniformly employed, 2 designates a supporting post to which is secured a pintlebolt comprising a pintle 8, a screw 4, and an oblong foot 5 including a projecting heel 5. V

7 indicates the upper portion of a gatebody comprising an angle-iron standard 8, a plate-standard 9, and a truss plate 10, all of which are secured to the slats or bars 11, the upper one only of which is shown.

12 indicates the gate-member or pintle receiving loop and is shown best in Fig. 3. It is formed from a strip of sheet metal and comprises ears 13, having each an aperture 141, parallel cheeks 15 having registering apertures 16, and a portion 17 connecting said cheeks.

18 designates a rivet or the like passing through the upper aperture 14 and securing the upper ear 13 to the adjacent branch of Specification of Letters Pat ent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1917.

the angle-iron 8. 19 designates a conehcaded rivet passed through the lower aperture 14 and securing the lower ear 13 to said branch.

Assume the parts to be in the relative positions shown in Fig. 1. Should an animal in any manner hook, rub, root, or otherwise cause the gate to rise, the member 12 will be prevented from raising from the pintle by reason of the head of the rivet 19 striking the projected heel 5 of the pintle bolt.

Should it be desired to remove the gate it is to be swung to the dotted line position shown in Fig. 2, in which position it will be evident that the side of the bolt will pass the rivet, whereupon the gate may be lifted off the pintle. A reverse operation will, of course, replace the gate.

The cone-head of the rivet 19 will not come in contact with the projection 5, as would a head which did not taper outwardly. Thus there will be no friction and no scraping at this point. The peculiar shape of the head thus also permits the rivet to be placed much closer to the cheek 15 than could an otherwise shaped one, and the cheekin fact, the entire loop-projection is held more rigidly on the gate. The spaced cheeks 1515 are decidedly effective in holding the gate body from sagging, for they hear at both the top and bottom por: tions of the pintle and in opposite directions. Owing to the openness of the hinge it will not rust like a solid eye. As hinges of this type are constantly exposed to the weather this is a noteworthy advantage. And owing to the minimum area of contact between the pintle and the pintlereceiving loop there will be but a very small amount of friction.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent the following, namely:

1. In combination, a pintle-receiving loop including spaced cheeks and ears, a swinging body, means for fixing the upper ear to said body, a cone-shaped element for fixing the lower ear to said body, said element arranged a slight distance below the lower one of said cheeks, and a gate-bolt including a pintle adapted to engage both of said cheeksand including also an oblong foot having a projecting heel lying normally between said cone-shaped element and the lower cheek.

2. In combination, a pintle-receiving loop ing body, means for securing the ears to said ,body,"said means arranged a slight distance jecting in rear thereof, and a gate sustaining gage both of saideheeks and including also including spaced cheeks and 'ears,"a swing a foot having a projecting portion lying normally between said securing means and the lower cheek.

below the lower one of said cheeks and promy name this 30th day of June, 1916.

PERRY 0. JAMES.

element including a pintle adapted to en- 'Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents veach, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

- In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe Correction in Letters Patent No. 1,216,573.

It is hereby certified that the name of the assignee in Letters Patent N 0. 1,216,573, granted February 20, 1917, upon the application of Perry C. James, of Sciota,

I Illinois, for an improvement in Hinges, was erroneously written and printed as George C. Bayrie, Whereas said name should have been written and printed as- G'eorge G. Bayne, as shown by the records of assignments in this ofiicej and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oflice Signed and sealed this 20th day of March, A. D., 1917.

[SEAL-1 F. W. H. CLAY,

7 Acting Commissioner of Patents. CI. 1649. 

